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Production place

Materials

Ware

Technique

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Inscriptions

Inscription Type

mark

Inscription Language

Chinese

Inscription Comment

Hongzhi mark

Curator's comments

Published PDF date : MingRoom 95 label text:

PDF A484

Dish with dragons

The base of this white porcelain saucer-dish has an apocryphal six-character underglaze blue reign mark of the Hongzhi period (AD 1488–1505). It is decorated inside in the walls with an anhua (hidden decoration) slip design of dragons chasing flaming pearls. Qing Kangxi copies of Ming Hongzhi porcelains are more finely potted and regular in shape.